Means for preserving golf-club shafts



Dec. 8, 1925- J. 5. WHITE 7 MEANS FOR PRESERVING GOLF CLUB SHAFTS Filed June 12 1925 7 shafts.

Patented Dec. 8, 1925.

UNITED STATES JAMES s. WHITE, or onrcaeo, IL InoIs;

MEANS FOR PRESERVENG' GOLF-CLUB SI-IAFTS.

Application filed June 12, 1925. Serial no. 36,767.,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that'I, JAMES S. lVHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at 3017 Carroll Ave, Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented. a new and useful Improvement in Means for Preserving lolf-Club Shafts, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to means'for preserving golf club shafts and the like.

In the repair of golf clubs, the shaftsare roughly finished to shape and are thoroughly dried before leaving the factory to prevent their warping as would be the case if the moisture were permitted to remain in the These roughly finished shafts which i are unfilled and unvarnished, are shipped to the repair men and these shafts are usually. permitted to remain in an open room where they rapidly reabsorb the moisture from the atmosphere with the result that a shaft which is comparatively straight at the time it is fitted into a club-head will after some months warp badly. I

The primary object of the present invention is to provide a ready means for overcoming this difficulty in preserving the shaft in substantially the same condition as that in which it leaves the factory.

Another object is to provide such a means which can be readily set up and used in the usual golf club repair shop. p

. These and other objects are accomplished by this invention which is fully described in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings; in which,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a cabinet embodying the invention, such view showing the door open;

Fi 2 is a slightly enlarged section on the line 2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a similar view on the line f 1; and V Fig. is a vertical section on the line 41 of Fig. 3.

The embodiment illustrated comprises a vertically disposed cabinet having side walls 10, 11 and 12 which are held together in any suitable manner as hy means of corner pieces 13 which are riveted, spot-welded or otherwise secured thereto.

A. door 14 is hingedly mp unted so as to close the front of the cabinet this door being locked by any suitableform of locking mechanism 15.

The top of the cabinet is preferably left 19 as shown in Fig: l,

circuit for heating t claim.

open while a perforatedplate is secured some distance above the'lower ends of the corner supports 13. provided in this plate in aligned rows so as to receive the tapered lower endslS of. shafts A wire frame or the A series of'holes 17 is like 20 is provided near theupper portion of the cabinet, the wires 21 of this frame be; ing spaced so as to overl e the spaces between the rows of holes 17. thereby keeping,v

cured beneath the plate 16, and has wires 23 the upper ends of the shafts falignedfas shown 1n Figs. 1 and 2. p V y An electrical heating element 22 1S se-,

by means of which current isfbrought in from any suitable ource such as a lighting he element 92. The'air within the spaces beneath the plate '16 is thus heatedand passes up through holes 24 which are located between the holes 17'. Thus, the heated, air passes up between and I around the go-lf'club shafts andeventually passes out through the top of the cabinet.

Only a relativelysmall amount of'current is thus required to preserve, the shafts in good condit on since it is appl ed directly to them.

where the shafts fare'dheld horizontally.

The vertical position of the shafts too aids greatly in keeping them stralght since there is notendencylto as is the case the hot air equally on all sides of the shafts While I have shown and describedeertain embodiments of my invention, it ,is tobe understood that .it is capable of many modifications. Changes, therefore, in the con of the invention as disclosed in the appended I claim In combination, an upright cabinet, a

plate at the bottom of said cabinet having openings adapted to receive-the ends of golf club shafts, means for keeping-said clubs in.

parallel arrangement, means for heating the-- air inthe bottom of said cabinet beneath said plate, and intermediate open ngs nsaid plate forpassing hot air upwardly between said shafts. f

JAMES s. WHITE. 

